The American Spirit was scheduled to winter in Toledo when it appeared to become stuck in ice north of the Lake Erie islands.

The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...

January, it's not long before the Great Lakes' largest ships dock for the season. Here's where to find them until March.

CLEVELAND — U.S. Coast Guard ships worked in icy waters on the Great Lakes on Jan. 21 to help large cargo boats that were stuck in ice. Two Coast Guard cutters — the Mackinaw and the Neah Bay — broke ...

When the large cargo vessels go in and out of the St. Lawrence River, they come along the south edge of the Quinte region in Lake Ontario. In recent days, there have been several of these lake ...

A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...

SS Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 vanished on Lake Erie under circumstances that remain deeply unclear. There were no confirmed distress calls, no clear wreckage, and no definitive explanation for what ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in ...

A U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter conducted an airlift operation to rescue a patient from a freighter on Lake Superior due to a medical emergency. The helicopter, dispatched from Traverse City on ...